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Quote of the Day
"If this great reflation happens, it will probably be the most important economic story of the 2020s."
(Neil Irwin)
Markets
- Three big themes for the rest of the year including a mutating virus. (blog.yardeni.com)
- Why didn't the financial markets react more to political violence? (theatlantic.com)
Strategy
- How to invest in a bubble. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
- Jeff Miller, "Successful investors are realists not ideologues." (dashofinsight.com)
- A nice review for Joachim Klement's book "Seven Mistakes Every Investor Makes (And How to Avoid Them)." (valueandopportunity.com)
Crypto
Media
- Apple ($AAPL) has finally decided to get into the premium podcast business. (markets.businessinsider.com)
- Medium has purchased e-book company Glose. (theverge.com)
- Issues about content moderation are going to spread from Twitter ($TWTR) and Facebook ($FB). (onezero.medium.com)
- Freakonomics Radio is opening up it archive and produce new shows. (axios.com)
Peleton
- People who ordered Peleton ($PTON) bikes are disappointed with extended delivery times. (nytimes.com)
- Why Joe Biden can't bring his Peleton ($PTON) bike to the White House. (cnbc.com)
Companies
- Snapchat ($SNAP) is paying content creators big bucks to compete with TikTok. (nytimes.com)
- Dating app provider Bumble has filed to go public. (news.crunchbase.com)
- For the first time ever DuckDuckGo had 100 million daily searches. (forbes.com)
Wikipedia
- Wikipedia's reputation, at age 20, has never been higher. (economist.com)
- Wikipedia editors are fighting over what to call what happened on January 6th. (fastcompany.com)
Policy
- Barry Ritholtz, "If a private company has bad actors on its platform hurting its business or reputation, they are free to de-platform them." (ritholtz.com)
- Making the case that companies shouldn't donate to any political candidate or party. (nytimes.com)
- Why a jump in the national minimum wage is on the table. (theatlantic.com)
- Many ethical norms were violated in the past four years. Why they may need to be codified into law. (nytimes.com)
- Why we need rank-ordered voting. (elidourado.com)
Economy
- A succinct summary of the week's economic events. (ritholtz.com)
- The economic schedule for the coming week. (calculatedriskblog.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- What everyone was reading this week on the site. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Saturday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Coronavirus links: good enough. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Introducing 'The Goldmine' a new audio feed where you can hear your favorite financial writers read their best content. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Are you a financial adviser looking for some out-of-the-box thinking? Then check out our weekly e-mail newsletter just for advisers. (newsletter.abnormalreturns.com)
